Like many Americans, Michael Steiner, executive vice president at Ovation Travel Group, feels the pull of today's environmental movement. He reads the papers; he's seen An Inconvenient Truth; he knows that a curb on greenhouse gases is needed to...
If you took every step that would make your meeting more environmentally responsible it might take more time and effort than you would spend on every other aspect of your program. But just because you might not be able to do everything doesn’t...
Using its recent Professional Education Conference–Europe as it resource laboratory, Meeting Professionals International has released a white paper that, it says, reaffirms the impact effective “learning” meetings have on ROI for both the meeting...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has joined the ranks of organizations that are rethinking the impact of their meetings on the environment. Starting May 1, the government agency changed the rules under which it decides which facilities to...
Here's a title you don't run into everyday at a hotel: community projects manager. That's the position that Jo Licata holds at the San Francisco Hilton. With overall responsibility for the hotel's charitable and community efforts, she's held this...
In a packed session last Saturday afternoon at the new Heldrich conference center in New Brunswick, N.J., members of the International Association of Conference Centers heard from a meeting planner and two architects about best practices in green...
Last week, IMEX, the incentive and meeting exhibition, drew 3,500 hosted buyers to Frankfurt, Germany. Among the events of the April 22-24 show was the announcement of the Green Meetings Award winners, where North American events took the top two...
